SUPER SIZE ME Ce documentaire est très riche. Il faut vraiment le

SUPER SIZE ME
Ce documentaire est très riche. Il faut vraiment le visionner de façon à choisir ce qui vous parait
intéressant. J’ai choisi de visionner et travailler comme suit :
SEANCE 1: Visionner le 1er chapitre jusqu’à « I’m ready »
Fiche compréhension orale/mise en commun
Travail sur des parties de script.
Superlatif/used to/Be going to +BV
SEANCE 2: Visionner les chapitres 2/3 jusqu’à la scène où il vomit.
Fiche de travail (his decision/the medical staff/his last supper/Mac Do’s rules
SEANCE 3: Visionner une partie des chapitres 7/8/9/10 first signs
Script de l’interview de son amie.
Apport de vocabulaire/Expression écrite
SEANCE 4: Chapitres 11/12
Script du “voiceover” travail de C Ecrite
PRL les quantificateurs/Comment the last words
SEANCE 5 : Chapitre 7 Appleton School et chapitre 11 jour 30 Morgan’s detox diet
Fiche travail
Un travail peut être réalisé sur les chansons du documentaire.
AUTRES CHAPITRES INTERESSANTS :
 Chapitre 4: Liste des maladies liées à l’obésité cela peut faire l’objet d’un travail en
interdisciplinarité.
 Chapitre 5: jour 6 l’histoire des Nuggets (nourriture reconstituée)
 Chapitre 7: La 1er prise de sang/La 2ième pesée/Lunchtime in school cafeterias
 Chapitre 9: Addiction
 Chapitre 10: Jour 21 Le personnage se sent très mal…
 Chapitre 11: La difficulté des derniers jours.
DEMARCHE PEDAGOGIQUE

SUPER SIZE ME
- Directed by: Morgan Spurlock
- Written by: Morgan Spurlock
- Genre: Documentary
- Runtime: 100 mn
- Country: USA
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
PLOT SUMMARY
YOUR OPINION ABOUT THE DOCUMENTARY

FICHE 1
SUPER SIZE ME
Tâche: Je peux comprendre l’information essentielle d’un document authentique. (A2/B1) CO/EE
Spot the different information about:
What the
children are
singing:
What the
narrator is
saying about
America:
What the
narrator is
saying about
himself:
What the
narrator is
saying about
Fast Food
Restaurants:

FICHE 2
“ Look at the customer and the business will take care of itself”
Ray Kroc (Mc Donald’s founder)
“Everything is bigger in America. We’ve got the biggest cars, the biggest houses, the biggest companies, the
biggest food and finally the biggest people.
America has now become the fattest nation in the world. Congratulations.”
PRL: Relève les groupes nominaux composés de l’adjectif et du nom qu’il qualifie.
Traduis les groupes nominaux.
Quelle est la notion traduite ici ?
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FICHE 3
Oral compréhension : Spot at least 3 figures and their facts.
FACTS
FIGURES FACTS
- Three times
- 100 million
- Since 1980
- Twice
- More than 60%
- One in four people
- The third
- The second
- In 2002
- More than 400.000
- One in four Americans
- 30 000 signs
- 46 million people
- a few Americans were fed up of being overweight, they
sued.
- of American are now overweight or obese.
- as many overweight adolescents.
- fattest state in America is Virginia.
- cause of death is obesity.
- as many overweight children.
- of all US adults are obese.
- are obese in the fattest state in America: Mississipi.
- as many children.
- are fed by Mac Donald’s.
- visit a fast food restaurant.
- of Mc Donald’s are present in 100 countries in 6
continents.
- the total number of overweight has doubled.
- Death per year (illness related to obesity.
 Link the figures with their facts. Write a text using five figures and facts which are the most important
to you.

FICHE 4
THE CHARACTER/NARRATOR
“ I grew up in West Virginia currently the third fattest state in America. When I was growing up, my mother
cooked diner every single day, we never ate out only in those few rare special occasions.
Today, families do it all the time, they are paying for it with their waist lines.
What would happen if I eat nothing than Mc Donald for 30 days straight?
Would I suddenly be in the track of becoming an obese American?
Would it be unreasonably dangerous?
Let’s find out, I’m ready.
PRL: Quel est le temps utilisé dans le texte? Justifie.
- What did the narrator use to do when he was a child ?
Quelle est la notion traduite dans cette question?
Réponds à cette question en utilisant la même notion.
Observe et traduis: What is the character going to do? What’s going to happen?
- Quel est le temps employé ici?
- Comment se structure t-il ?
Rédige des phrases en utilisant cette structure.